luckyboy wrote:Tour de l'Avenir allowing WorldTour riders is some bullshit

Do you have a link?

What is the point of allowing world tour riders? It's meant to be a race for young riders.

Nowadays anyway. I thought it was U23 now, as opposed to the U27 Girobio. Still, though intended for young riders it did used to just be an open race, specifically with reference to the Eastern Bloc riders like Sukhoruchenkov and Olaf Ludwig winning it, but also more notoriously with reference to Laurent Fignon winning it in 1988.

luckyboy wrote:Tour de l'Avenir allowing WorldTour riders is some bullshit

Do you have a link?

What is the point of allowing world tour riders? It's meant to be a race for young riders.

The colombian team recently announced its lineup. Sebastian Henao is in it...A guy who already has been top 10 on GT climbing stages.

A really silly and strange change.

Agree with that, thats a serious BS from organizer

Alberto Contador fanboyVamosColombia!

Ryo Hazuki in August 2013 wrote:what? quintana is already better climber than froome. see final stages of the tour and he's only 23. quintana is the best climber I've sene since pantani. he will become a legend

That article says Nibali will only leave in 2017, when he'll go to an Italian team built around him. But that seems to be a bit of journalistic overenthusiasm, since Nibali describes the idea as "a dream" of his.

hrotha wrote:That article says Nibali will only leave in 2017, when he'll go to an Italian team built around him. But that seems to be a bit of journalistic overenthusiasm, since Nibali describes the idea as "a dream" of his.

Is Team Alonso never going to happen then? It would suit Nibali quite well to go there, maybe not an all-Italian team but it will have many Italians, Paolo Bettini as a coach and a more relaxed environment than Vino.

hrotha wrote:That article says Nibali will only leave in 2017, when he'll go to an Italian team built around him. But that seems to be a bit of journalistic overenthusiasm, since Nibali describes the idea as "a dream" of his.

Is Team Alonso never going to happen then? It would suit Nibali quite well to go there, maybe not an all-Italian team but it will have many Italians, Paolo Bettini as a coach and a more relaxed environment than Vino.

Brullnux wrote:Is Team Alonso never going to happen then? It would suit Nibali quite well to go there, maybe not an all-Italian team but it will have many Italians, Paolo Bettini as a coach and a more relaxed environment than Vino.

Team Alonso ain't happening. In that sense, I guess it would be pretty relaxed.

Don't know where to ask this. I've just rewatched part of last year Clasica San Sebastian. What's wrong with Jeannesson? He's nowhere near anything this year, DNFing all his WT stage races. Any news about him?